Its subsequent success at the 1954 Oscars, where it won eight Academy Awards, including best picture, director, screenplay, camerawork and both supporting actor awards, was a sweep not seen since It Happened One Night in 1935 or repeated until One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in 1976.
That's not altogether surprising, given the success of Jones's novel, which required extensive bowdlerisation by screenwriter Daniel Taradash before it could be filmed at all. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century."T he boldest book of our time … honestly, fearlessly on the screen!" That was how the movie posters for From Here To Eternity touted Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of James Jones's bestselling novel dealing with army life in Hawaii before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.įrom Here to Eternity still stands up very well. It went on to win eight Academy Awards, including for best picture, director, adapted screenplay, supporting actor (Sinatra) and Supporting Actress (Donna Reed). Basis for the 1953 film directed by Fred Zinneman starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra. a compelling and compassionate story" (Los Angeles Times). The title comes originally from a quote from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem "Gentlemen-Rankers", about soldiers of the British Empire who had "lost way" and were "damned from here to eternity." “Extraordinary and utterly irresistible. Around him, others are fighing their own small battles-and losing.
Lee Prewitt a nonconformist hero who refuses to box at Schofield Barracks and is slowly destroyed by his own rebelliousness. Jacket photograph by Pat Maestro.įrom Here to Eternity is a commanding novel of the soldiers who were poised on the brink of real manhood when World War II flung them unceremoniously into that abyss. Presentation edition, signed by James Jones on the half-title page.
First edition of the author’s first book, one of the great novels of World War II.
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